Photograph: Eduardo Munoz/Reutershttp://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2009/jun/05/waste-world-environment-day

What is marine debris?◦ any persistent solid material that is manufactured or

processed by humans and directly or indirectly, intentionally or unintentionally, disposed of or abandoned into the marine environment

Video

http://bushwarriors.wordpress.com/tag/ocean-conservation/

Define marine debris Determine when a Marine Debris Encounter

form is required Demonstrate your ability to complete the

Marine Debris form

Gear & vessel interactions ◦ Longline, pots, gillnet, purse seine > each

encounter◦ Trawl > vessel interactions only

GearGear interactions include any encounter with your vessel’s fishing gear. • trawl door gets entangled with an abandoned crab pot• longline gear hooks a discarded washing machine

VesselVessel interactions are with the vessel itself • abandoned gillnet is caught in propeller• vessel hits an anchored buoy

http://snf.fra.affrc.go.jp/English/wwwsupl/supl10.htm

Fish Aggregating Device

Fish aggregate below

http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/htmls/fish5220.htm

Fish aggregate below Floating objects –

natural & man-made

http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov

http://www.dennisalbert.com/2004/March.htm

Fish aggregate below Floating objects –

natural & man-made Allows tracking of

objects

http://forman.en.ec21.com/

Use information on handout to complete a Marine Debris Encounter form

15 minutes & then we’ll pick them up

What is marine debris? Would you need a Marine Debris Encounter form

for…◦ Plastic sheeting caught in the trawl net?◦ Abandoned gillnet caught in propeller◦ Crab pot entangled with your demersal longline?

Gear or vessel interaction for above?

Thanks to Carey Morishige (NOAA Marine Debris Program, Honolulu, HI) for assistance with form design and development.